LOS ANGELES — Slava Voynov and Jake Muzzin scored just 97 seconds apart early in the third period as the Kings stopped the Ducks’ six-game winning streak with a 5-2 victory Monday night at Staples Center.

It was just the second loss for the Ducks (13-3-1) in the last 12 games while the suddenly resurgent Kings (9-6-2) have won four in a row and six of their past seven. The Kings avenged a 7-4 loss to the Ducks on Feb. 2 in Anaheim.

Voynov got a perfect pass from Anze Kopitar from behind the net and teed up a one-timer that snuck through Ducks goalie Viktor Fasth for a 3-2 lead.

With their first advantage on the scoreboard, the Kings pushed the lead to two goals as Muzzin beat Fasth on the glove slide with a shot from the point for a power-play goal while Sheldon Souray sat in the penalty box for slashing.

Fasth made 20 saves but took his first loss in nine starts as he failed to join Ray Emery in becoming the only goaltenders to win their first nine NHL decisions. At the other end, Jonathan Quick stopped 24 shots.

Dustin Brown started the rally late in the second period when he used a Ducks defender as a screen and whistled a wrist shot that flew past Fasth off the crossbar and bounced downward over the goal line.

Before that goal, the Ducks had played with two leads in the second period on scores by Andrew Cogliano and Saku Koivu.

Brown had a shot at a second goal when he was awarded a penalty shot after being tripped up by the Ducks’ Ben Lovejoy while on a breakaway but he put the puck off the right post after having Fasth drawn out and beaten.

But Jeff Carter wrapped up the scoring with an empty-net goal with 20.8 remaining.

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